'Plague'

A plague has scattered across the small town of Yieldfarm. A plague worse than any other encountered before, a plague that could be the cause of human extinction.
When Jamie witnessed her parents turning in to vicious flesh-eating monsters she did not think she would survive much longer than a day. But soon with the help of a few friends and her uncle Mason she manages to enter a small group of people who have heard of a refugee camp that they are venturing to. Will Jamie manage to survive? Or is she going to fall another victim to the plague?
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Jamie
gasped for breath as she reached out for her water-bottle. She'd
been practicing for the Yieldfarm annual marathon which was only
in two days. "Haven't you been practicing a little too long,
today?" Natasha asked as she applied another thick layer of
lipgloss.

Jamie
shook her head. "It's only been two hours! The least I could do
was 4 to 5 hours!" She sighed in frustration. The marathon would
have tough competition this year. Ben O' Grady was in it, and she
was not going to let that ego-filled jerk win.

They
taunted each other ever since announcements for the marathon were
made. For the last two years, Ben had won first place in all the
marathons. Since Jamie was officially old enough to join, she was
adamant to beat that little dickwad and show him that girls could
be as powerful as boys.

Natasha flicked a
strand of her curly blonde hair back and stood up. "Well I've
certainly been staying here watching you run around and around
and around for a leetle too long. I'm going
yeah?"

Jamie
scowled at her best friend unapprovingly. Natasha had a
solidly-built body and long legs that best-suited running yet she
loved to do anything but that. Jamie thought Natasha could eaily
beat anyone (including Jamie herself) at races. However, Natasha
felt modelling was more her 'thing'

"Fine." Jamie
mumbled. She looked at the racing track, it was nearly empty now.
That morning it was brimming with athletes ready to practice for
the 'big day' as people liked to call it. No one had, however,
practiced as intensely as Jamie since she seemed to be the only
girl who looked upon this marathon as a real important one than
just an annual event that hardly anyone here in this god-forsaken
town bothered about.

Jamie
was very pretty, slightly tanned skin (from all the running, it
was hard for her to avoid the stifling hot sun) and chocolate
brown eyes that was used as a persuasive tactic whenever she
wanted something (and it usually worked too). Her hair matched
her eyes though it did have honey-coloured highlights to emphasis
it's beauty. Many boys admired her head-strong attitude along
with her immense gorgeousness.

She,
unfortunately, was too devoted on running then frolicking around
with snotty-faced boys with baggy jeans. Jamie's strict schedule
never seemed to have time for anything fun, much to Natasha's
dismay.

Natasha sighed as
a soft breeze blew. It was only 12 something yet the sky had gone
dark and cloudy, a gloomy atmosphere settled itself on
them.

"Damn
you Yieldfarm," She muttered clicking her make-up compact shut.
Natasha ushered to Jamie with a frown growing on her face. "Oh
c'mon James, it's going to rain any second now. Practicing in
rain? Now, even you wouldn't go that far would you?"

Jamie knew she wouldn't. Even though she was a
bit of a tom-boy, there was still that touch of feminism in her.
She didn't want her hair getting wet from the water. Especially
since tonight was the night she had a date with....

Jamie
sighed happily as they gathered their things and stalked back to
the town. The racing track was far from the tiny little houses
inhabited by the Yieldfarmers, surrounded by a lush forest which
Jamie felt was a tad small but hid many dark and dangerous
secrets.

As
Jamie reached the gates to the old cottage she lived in, Natasha
pulled her in to a warm hug. "Good luck with your date with Sam.
Sam Fuller, wow, never thought you'd have enough 'girl' in you to
snag a date like that," She giggled and let go of her best
friend.

"You
sure you don't want to come inside? After all, it is raining."
Jamie walked to the front door. Natasha shook her head, her curls
bobbing along with her. "Nope. I feel like curling up in bed, got
a bit of a headache,"

Jamie
tutted and waved to her friend. "Night, bitch"

"Night, darl.
Call me when you realize you're in love with me," Natasha grinned
and Jamie snorted as she pushed open the door.

"Yeah, that'll
happen soon alright," She replied, her voice dripping with
sarcasm. Natasha gave her a wink and walked down the pavement
towards her home which wasn't that far away.

There
had once been a rumour spread by a rather nasty girl called Karen
in Year 5 that Jamie had lesbian feelings for Natasha. Of course
the rumour was ridiculed, however, Natasha, being the cheeky girl
she was, never stopped teasing poor Jamie about it.

Not
even now when they were going off to Univeristy together.

"Talk
about childish." Jamie grinned and shut the door.

~

"Strange Virus found
by scientist, epidemic spreads.."

Recently, a scientist by the name
of Daniel James Salter has discovered a strange microbe, which he
has named "Letum Virus". It is not known how it has appeared or
where it started since it has already spread across the North of
South Carolina and parts of Asia. The symptoms of this peculiar
virus are as follows;

Deep red rashes appearing on
underarms, foreheads, genital areas and chests. Fevers,
hallucinations and severe paranoia, muscle spasms , deep or
incoherent sounds at the back of the throat , coughing of blood
out of the mouth and nose. It seems to be causing havoc
particularly around Dene, a small town located in the East of
England, where nearly 20 people have been affected. Dr. Satler is
looking for ways of descreasing the amount of
infections.

"The only one I can
think of now," Says Salter, "Is stay indoors, fully-equipped with
daily needs. Stay safe."

Other scientists
ridicule this virus as another hoax created by Salter who has
been known widely around the world for finding other viruses and
continuously being caught lying about them.

"Don't worry folks,"
Proffessor Carmen says,"We all know Salter's doing this for the
cash," However, many have long stopped listening and are already
planning ahead for what could possibly be the biggest plague
after the 'Black Death', which occured hundreds of years ago in
England, wiping out nearly half of it's population.

Jamie rolled her eyes
and shoved the newspaper away. It was three days old yet she was
worrying. I don't care if I get the darned infection, she
thought, I just hope it's after the marathon.

She'd had many virus
infections before, all seemingly with worse symptoms than that of
in the newspaper. Well except for the blood and the paranoia
part. Besides, like the article said, that crazy Salter man was
nothing but an attention-seeker. Rumours had it that he'd tried
applying as a science teacher at Yieldfarm Secondary
School.

His application had
been denied.

Jamie smirked. No way
was this guy talking the truth. The people who believed him were
as crazy as the other idiots who believed in the damn Mayans and
the world ending shit. She jumped as someone knocked the
door.

"Uhm...come in," Jamie
couldn't help feeling a tiny bit scared after reading the
newspaper. And admittedly, a very, very tiny part of her had
believed in the Mayan rumours too.

Jamie's mother came in
looking rather peaky. Her eyes bulged and there was a tiny red
spot forming on her forehead. The... virus?

Jamie mentally shook
her head. Shut up, she thought to herself, it's a zit. Not the
virus. "You alright there?" Jamie frowned as her mother sat on
the edge of her bed. Wiping away some sweat, her mother
sighed.

"Ooff...nope,
definitely not alright. Uhm...but I'm not here to complain to you
about this awful thing I've caught lately, god no. It's..a phone
call from that boy you were going out with
tonight...whatshisname-"

"Ooh Sam!" Jamie got
out o her bed and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Her
mother sighed and shook her head sadly.

"'M afraid he had to
cancel the date...." She let out a wheezy cough. Jamie felt
herself getting cold. Sam...cancelled? Why?? WHY?